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THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION

... who, if as witty as she is here drawn beautiful, must indeed have justified the praise bestowed on this great toast of the Whigs. Now that the pictures are being hung, the light from thle gallery roof is found to be per- fect. As a rule, very few of the ...

NOTES ON NEW BOOKS

... those who were nomi- nated as his successor were Sir William Hamilton, Sir James Mackintosh, Mr. Malthus, and John Wilson. The Whigs made great efforts to get Hamilton in ; but Wilson carried the day, and was elected by twenty-one votes out of thirty. His ...

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... the House, were both instructive ami amusing, and will bear to reproduced a sample the arguments by which the nominee of a Whig peer seeks to justify the exclusion ot the working cla&ses from the franchise. And your petitioners respectfully mention the ...

LITERATURE

... excite keen competition at the forthcoming sale. Among the literary curiosities Bible literature we find one known as the Whig Bible, which has Blessed are the place-makers instead of the well-known beatitude ; in which the extraordinary text occurs ...

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... and a scat was found for Reform Sir T. Western, a descendant and heir to the estates of the late rd Western, the great Essex Whig, who fought the county against Alexander Baring, afterwards Lord Ashburton. Middlesex, the great Metropolitan county, returned ...

The Reform meetings lately held in Bradford and Birmingham, and the indications a Reform policy afforded by ..

... accordingly their bent happens to lie. But whatever their disposition in regard to it, none of them can keep clear of the subject. Whig, Radical, philosophic Liberal, Tory, there is not one of our metropolitan contemporaries, but has its say upon the topic ...

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S SHOW AT LEICESTER

... years. He hoped lie should see prac1tical agriculturists candidates eat the coming election, whatever e. they might thisk as to Whig or, Tory. After some other toasts of a porsonal character, the n mneeting proeceeded to the, discussion of hie subject of thle ...

BENJAMIN'S MESS

... Gladstone tertnedlukewarn supporters); And, teaching belief in more excellent ends, Go beat up the enemy's quarters ! Awe, Whigs, awa ! ,ill no longer be heard In the hour of Dizzy's disaster, And a William we know of-(not William the Third)- Shall be ...

OUR LITERARY REVIEW

... of his researches and the brilliance of his descriptions-local and personal-will ever be admired, the great Whig historian was too much of a Whig, too much of a partisan, too fond of effect, too favourable to friends, too harsh to enemies, too narrow ...

DISRAELI'S PARTY

... party- (And they were not slow to lears), There never yet wa'8s principle But inside out 'twould turn; That what's a lie iCC Whig mouthe In Tory mouths is true ; And Household Suifrage always Was a genuine Tory view. Disraeli led his party Two several tirr~aa ...

MR. ADDERLEY ON COLONIAL POLICY.*

... of importance to the Imperial Govern- ment, dealing with the colonies, in a word, on the ideas of the sublimest Whiggery-as Whig practices rather than principles have come to bo under- stood in these days. Mr. Adderley, on the contrary, adopts, and has ...